Chessofia™ is a relational, person-to-person, ministry of Jesus Christ.

Simply put, “Chessofia™ is the royal game… the Royal Way.“
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In my old days as a scriptwriter, (and my now ancient dream of being the next William Goldman, Script Doctor Extraordinaire) the importance of every word carrying weight was paramount. In radio, for instance, you have a strict time structure and no time for the superfluous. Dialogue and description carry the idea(s) forward or they stop the cadence and flow and wind up making people read/watch/hear five minutes of the characters traveling somewhere. “Always enter a scene just after it’s begun,” is the old saw.

Finally coming to the completion of this summary at top helps me immensely. There’s nothing for me like a writing exercise to focus me on the essence of things to clarify where I’m going. That’s why Bible study is so vital to our lives (especially when you write down what you’re learning)… otherwise, we’ll just wind up being a body without a head, a lemming heading for the cliff, a lawyer following an ambulance (okay, maybe the second one’s not fair to lemmings [smile])… wandering aimlessly. Not to say that I was aimless before writing the above, but it’s helped get all the feet on the path that Christ is walking… or to say it ‘chessicly’, as Bruce Pandolfini might say, to get all the pieces on the board where His Cross lies; in the right order.

Chessofia™ is a relational, person-to-person, ministry of Jesus Christ.

Simply put, “Chessofia™ is the royal game… the Royal Way.“

Proverbs 24:3 tells us that, “By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established.” Alongside that is also this from Proverbs 21:30, “There is no wisdom, and no understanding and no counsel against the Lord.”

Chess study and Chess practice are proven [»] to be excellent tools for building up mental skills and developing important character traits that are required for a successful life. Public school systems in America and globally are fast incorporating Chess into the fabric of their curriculums for this very reason. Yet listen to this—> we are people who are made in the Imago Dei (God’s Image), created for His Glory. We are VASTLY more important than the functions and work that we perform. We were not – indeed ARE NOT – made to be parts of a machine. Chess, for too long, has been used to focus people on the machine-like and technical rather than to show the Imago Dei they were made to reveal. Since we are Imago Dei, our work and efforts, our studies and practices MUST honor the Living Word in Truth – the Reality of things as they TRULY ARE and not as we wish them to be or are told by men or institutions they must be.

Therefore, all our studies and practices must point to the Word of God – Jesus Christ. All our studies and practices must point to the Reality of the Fall and the Reality of the Redemption of man, by God Himself, at the Cross of Calvary. Chess is no exception to this rule. It either conforms to and reveals the Truth of Reality… or it is worthless.

Proverbs 20:25 tells us, “It is a snare for a man to say rashly ‘It is holy!’ and after the vows to make inquiry.” (… to find out if it really is holy and God-honoring!) Therefore, after three years of inquiry and prayer, we believe God by His Holy Spirit has revealed that Chess, although long co-opted by Humanism as a means to make man arrogant and prideful against God his Maker… is indeed a vast reservoir of object lessons pointing directly to and honoring the Holy Word of God, Jesus Christ.

Through Reality-based Chess instruction and it’s honorable, edifying practice, a heart and mind can be directed to the Living Word of God, much like Jesus pointed people to Scripture through parables, and there (and only there) receive the wisdom and understanding of God through His Holy Spirit to build up a man or woman of exceptional character and mental acuity. And, vitally, to receive the salvation of Christ for the day of God’s wrath to come, but also to be sanctified – that is, to be continually taught and guided in the ways of God in Christ in order to grow in faith and, therefore, to please God.

Yet even so, the benefits of Chess are still available to all to lift up and develop the much sought after values of an excellent character and an exceptional mind.

“TRULY, NO ONE CAN CLAIM CHESS IS A MERE GAME.
IT IS ONE OF MANY WORTHY LABORS STUDIED AND PRACTICED
BY ROYALTY, THAT IS PEOPLE MADE IN THE IMAGO DEI,
THAT RICHLY REVEALS THE TRUE ROYAL WAY… JESUS CHRIST.”